STWL: please comment

[Bernhard Fastenrath]

I just came back from a meeting about software patents in the
european parliament (http://eu.ffii.org/sections/bxl0411/)
and I decided to add paragraph 5 to the STWL to prevent patent
claims against open source software: please comment.

Bernhard

Spread the word license, STWL 1.0.

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